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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-02-14 18:29:01 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-02-14 18:29:01 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'mg/bisect-doc'
* mg/bisect-doc: git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisect
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index b4831bb..f986c5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Bisect reset
~~~~~~~~~~~~
After a bisect session, to clean up the bisection state and return to
-the original HEAD, issue the following command:
+the original HEAD (i.e., to quit bisecting), issue the following command:
------------------------------------------------
$ git bisect reset
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ EXAMPLES
------------
$ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
$ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app
+$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD:
@@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app
------------
$ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good
$ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests
+$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
* Automatically bisect a broken test case:
@@ -302,6 +304,7 @@ make || exit 125 # this skips broken builds
~/check_test_case.sh # does the test case pass?
$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10
$ git bisect run ~/test.sh
+$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
+
Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make"
@@ -351,6 +354,7 @@ use `git cherry-pick` instead of `git merge`.)
------------
$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10
$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
+$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
+
This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test
@@ -368,6 +372,7 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c '
rm -f tmp.$$
test $rc = 0'
+$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
+
In this case, when 'git bisect run' finishes, bisect/bad will refer to a commit that